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By mikethemadbiologist on November 20, 2009.

Happy Friday. Lotsa links for your weekend. Science:

Hippos are photographed biting a crocodile to death

Virus helps save the American Chestnut tree

Say hello to a titanic ancestor

Can We Build Our Way to Reduced Carbon Emissions?

Heritability of sociopathy

Climate change catastrophe took just months

Other:

Why you can't trust a damn thing they say

They forgot

Facebook Confessions

President Announces Realistic Hope Agenda

Afghan Escalation Would Make One-Year Pentagon Budget Almost As Big as Entire 10-Year Health Bill

What the Future May Hold

A false choice in health care battle

You have no rights

Why the Federal Reserve should LITERALLY throw money out of helicopters

Pinker on "What the Dog Saw."

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Sen. Allen (R-VA) Plays to the Republican Base...

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Adam Gopnik has a great New Yorker article (not online) on the genius and wickedness of G.K. Chesterton.

The Immortal

There are now some articles which are detailing the other Ponzi schemes which are coming out in the wake of l'affaire Madoff.

Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend, by Barbara Oakley

Originally posted by Grrlscientist On March 27, 2009, at 10:59 AM
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